5 thoughts on “encomendas / orders”

A question from a non Portugues that does not understand this custom. Why do men have to have special embroidered napkins? Are these for a special occassions? Don’t woman use napkins and don’t they deserve them embroidered too?

Velia! You make me laugh a lot! You are right Women deserve embroidered napkinbags as well.
Those were for a special event only attended by men and was for fun. Inside each bag was a napkin with a buttonhole to hang the napkin to the shirt :-)